Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for corporate communications, tweeted this morning that Windows Phone 7 won’t support CDMA until the first half of next year. That leaves just the two GSM carriers, AT&T and T-Mobile, for this year’s launch.

That’s something I’ve heard a lot of during the past year as Microsoft has talked about Windows Phone 7 — “doing fewer things well.” The smart-phone platform won’t have cut-and-paste, for instance, nor multitasking.

But those are relatively small compared to this news. No Windows Phone 7 this year on Verizon or Sprint?

Heck, if you’re on AT&T, you might as well just get an iPhone. It’s proven.

The big roll-out Microsoft promised is getting smaller and smaller. And it looked for a while like Windows Phone 7 was a rarity: a major Microsoft product on schedule. Nope!